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The modern and contemporary philosophical tradition, which has emphasized the specialness and security of self-knowledge, especially self-knowledge of the stream of conscious experience, and in comparison the relative insecurity or derivativeness of our knowledge of the physical world around us, has the epistemic situation
upside-down" - Eric
Schwitzgebel (Previously)
posted by Gyan
on Sep 1, 2011 -
32 comments
Natasha Mitchell: So it's not a little man or woman inside our heads...
Thomas Metzinger: ...that looks at pictures. But the experience of looking, of being directed to one's own feelings or to one's sensory perceptions of the outside world, this is itself an image. There is nobody looking at the image, it's like the camera is part of the picture or the viewing is itself a part of the process of viewing. This is how a first-person perspective emerges in our own case, the question is, okay, if it's not a thing, if it's not something in the brain, what kind of a process is it?
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posted by y2karl
on Oct 14, 2009 -
56 comments
First Person Plural. "An evolving approach to the science of pleasure suggests that each of us contains multiple selves—all with different desires, and all fighting for control. If this is right, the pursuit of happiness becomes even trickier. Can one self bind another self if the two want different things? Are you always better off when a Good Self wins? And should outsiders, such as employers and policy makers, get into the fray?"
[Via]
posted by homunculus
on Oct 25, 2008 -
27 comments
Self-portrait: A portrait an artist makes using himself or herself as its subject, typically drawn or painted from a reflection in a mirror.
There are many
famous painted self portraits, but now that everyone has a digital camera, more and more photographic self portaits are popping up
everywhere. Whether you think of it as
vanity,
narcissism,
self-invovlment, or just art, it is hard to deny that there are a lot of
interesting and
well-composed shots out there. Sure, there are plenty of
arm-
length camera angles, but there is also work being done with
black and white images,
hands and
feet, and,
of course,
eyes.
Even photoshop is used
sometimes. People are still
speculating on what exactly all these pictures mean, but I think it is clear that from
totally innocent to
intensely personal to
NSFW, self portraits are here to stay.
posted by nuclear_soup
on Mar 20, 2006 -
14 comments
Face to Face: The Science of Reading Faces. Transcript(and video)of a 2004 interview with psychologist Paul Ekman, who is known for his research on facial expression and the development, with associates, of the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). Includes a few facial expression photos. Part of the
"Conversations with History" series at the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley
.
posted by hortense
on Dec 10, 2005 -
10 comments
